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Plastic banned, street kids hit bulls eye with jute bags [1]

New Delhi: In 2004, a group of street children and ragpickers got together to make bags from scrap cloth and jute. Now, following a ban on plastic bags, the jute bags made by their organisation Lakhshya Badhte Kadam might just have hit the bull

Publication Date: 
27/01/2009
Indian Express (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Jute [3], Plastics [4], Non-Biodegradable Waste [5], Children [6], NGO [7], Delhi [8]
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